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William Pollack,
Ph.D.

William
S. Pollack, Ph.D. is the Director of the Centers
for Men and Young Men and the Director of Continuing
Education (Psychology) at McLean Hospital; and
is Assistant Clinical Professor (Psychology) in the Department
of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is
the Past President of the Massachusetts Psychological
Association, a member the Boston Psychoanalytic Society,
a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABPP, Board Certified),
and a Founding Member and Fellow of The Society
for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity,
a division of the American Psychological Association.
An internationally recognized authority on boys and men,
Dr. Pollack is Founder & Director of the REAL BOYS®
Educational Programs. He has served on the U.S. Presidential
initiative, The National Campaign Against Youth Violence
and is a consultant to The United States Secret Service,
including its collaborative Safe Schools Initiative
with the U.S. Department of Education.

His
newest work, Real
Boys Workbook (Random House/Villard, 2001), just
released, has been seen as "the definitive guide
to understanding and interacting with boys of all ages".
Utilizing down-to-earth examples and practical exercises
this "hands-on" workbook gives comprehensive
advice to parents, teachers, counselors, coaches, and
others on how to guide boys successfully through the many
challenges they face; and which Dr. Pollack has outlined
in his extremely popular previous two volumes on boys
and young males' experiences.

His
nationally Best-selling book, Real
Boys Voices (Random House, 2000/paperback,
Penguin, 2001) revealed the wide range of the secret
emotional lives of Americas young males, including
the survivors of Columbine to the "boys next door"from
their fears of violence and the scourge of bullying and
the Boy Code, to the impossible tests
of masculinity, to their yearning for genuine
relationships, struggles with their parents, and
sense of a hidden, but deeply rooted, spiritualitytold,
through their own stories, in their own voices. Pollack
also offers advice in both volumes on: How to Connect
and Listen to Our Boys, Recognizing Hidden Signs of Depression,
Suicide & Violence, and Methods to genuinely Bullyproof
our society. He identifies what he calls the Columbine
Syndrome, which has made America afraid of its own
sons, and Americas boys terrified by the so-called
(short-sighted and traumatic) safety measures
we have attempted to implement to eradicate violence.
His earlier, New York Times bestseller, Real
Boys--Rescuing Our Sons From The Myths Of Boyhood
[Random House, 1998/ paperback Holt/Owl, 1999] is based
upon Dr. Pollack's groundbreaking research project--Listening
to Boys Voices--on the inner emotional experiences
of boys and has already had profound impact upon how we
raise, teach and relate to our boys.

An
expert in the areas of: boy's development/education and
men's roles (including violence, suicide and depression),
school safety (including bullying prevention), workplace
violence, gender studies (men, boy-girl and male/female
relationships), parenting (mothering / fathering), organizational
structure, gender and work/family balance in workplace
culture, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and professional
issues in the practice of psychology, he is the author
and/contributor of numerous scholarly journal articles
and book chapters. In addition, he is a internationally
recognized speaker, and his work has been featured nationally
and internationally in the popular print and broadcast
media, including: The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, U.S.A. Today, U.S. News & World Report, The
Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The London Sunday Independent,
La Nouvelle Observeteur, Seventeen, Glamour, Self, Ladies
Home Journal, Longevity, Time, Newsweek, People, The Today
Show, NPR, CNN, Fresh Air, The BBC, Frontline, 20/20,
48 Hours, Dateline, Prime Time Live, Good Morning America,
Larry King, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Dr.
Pollack is also the co-author of a current book redefining
the psychology of men and male/female relationships, entitled:
InA
Time of Fallen Heroes: The Re-Creation of Masculinity
(Simon & Schuster); and Co-Editor of a comprehensive
volume addressing boys and men's roles in work,
family, love and health, entitled: A New Psychology of
Men (Basic Books), as well as a recent book redefining
psychological treatment for males: New Psychotherapy for
Men (Wiley).